{"id":25606,"date":"2014-06-29T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:49:46","slug":"johnny-carson-red-skelton-running-gag-in-1952-johnny-carson-joined-cbs-ow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25606","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Carson – Red Skelton Running Gag…1952"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJohnny Carson – Red Skelton Running Gag…<\/p>\n

In 1952, Johnny Carson joined CBS owned KNXT in Los Angeles as a staff announcer. About a year later, a 15 minute show called ‘Carson’s Cellar’ debuted but petered out after a few months. That’s when Red Skelton asked Carson to become one of the writers on his top rated CBS show.<\/p>\n

Once in 1954, Skelton hurt himself at rehearsal when a breakaway door didn’t breakaway and he chose Carson to fill in for him that night as host. After the show, Jack Benny told Red to “watch that kid…he’s great!”<\/p>\n

While still writing for Skelton, Cason had a few other on air adventures at KNXT including the five minute ‘Carson’s Coffee Break’. Carson had invited Red as a guest for several weeks in a row, and Red came, but was never allowed to speak as they always ran out of time. Finally, Skelton tied Johnny up and took over.<\/p>\n

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Johnny Carson – Red Skelton Running Gag… In 1952, Johnny Carson joined CBS owned KNXT in Los Angeles as a staff announcer. About a year later, a 15 minute show called ‘Carson’s Cellar’ debuted but petered out after a few months. That’s when Red Skelton asked Carson to become one of the writers on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,783,720,825,726],"class_list":["post-25606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-cbs","tag-host","tag-johnny-carson","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60015,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions\/60015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}